Why Fly By

October 8, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Amusement Park, Canada, CFFC, Curves, Ditty, Family, fpj-photo-challenge, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Tourism, travel, Wonderland 22 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

As they fly

Passing by

Tumbling through

Loops of sky

To hoot and cry,

They spend the day

Waving high

To Earth defy

As some shake heads

Oh my, oh my

And wonder why…

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Note: These photos are from Canada’s “Wonderland” amusement park in Vaughn, where my family spent a day this past July, high flying and earth-defying while I mostly did the photo-taking and oh-my-why’ing. … 😉 (In the photo above, they are in the three short horizontal lines in free fall on the vertical line, a moment before being turned upside down and sideways and goodness knows what else). It was a delightful day all around (pun?) till I got on one kiddie ride in the afternoon … Now, if you’re into these contraptions, that place is an all out-human-milkshake inventive park, just be warned and don’t be fooled by the miniature height requirements: they start them early and loop-di-doop-whoop-loop even those rides meant for preschoolers. …

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Tourism

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, curves and arches

Protector Squared

October 6, 2019October 6, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: Arts and Crafts, Baby blanket, Crochet, Ditty, Dolls, Just for fun, Lines&Squares, Minion, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Square 22 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

He will guard it with his presence

He will goggle eyes at you

If you dare come too near

This blanket square

That your fingers and soft yarn

Conspired for a little one’s doll to

Darn.

For Becky’s October Squares: Lines&Squares

Next in Line

October 6, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: airport, expectation, Hong Kong, Lined up, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Sunday Stills, Thailand, travel 12 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Framed by

Turquoise water,

Aligned by

Mountains

And turf.

Next in line

For takeoff,

Ere the last leg

To Thailand

And loved ones

And surf.

For the Sunday Stills Photo Challenge: Lines and squares

Desert Reflection

October 1, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: CFFC, Desert, hope, life, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Rectangle, Reflection, Reservoir, Water 8 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

In the middle of the desert

Where the dirt stretches far,

Hope ripples atop a small

Opaque reservoir,

That come night reflects

Heaven’s traveling star.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rectangles and Squares

Quite Out of Yellow

October 1, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: children, Colors, fpj-photo-challenge, Groceries, Just for fun, Kitchen, Photo Challenge, play, Poetry, Shopping, Things Kids Say 21 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

“Mama, we are quite out of

Yellow

And down to the last

Red.

I’ve used up all the

Orange

And can’t use green

Instead.

We must head to the

Market

Where there’s so much to

Get.

I cannot cook this salad

Colors aren’t all here

Yet!”

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Groceries

On Delicate Wings

September 29, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Good stuff!, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Be yourself, Beauty, Butterfly, Determination, Imperfection, Photo Challenge, Photo prompt, Poetry, Sunday Stills, Tenacity, Trauma 16 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

What had happened to you

In the short life

You knew?

Your wings’ rhythm

Aflutter

To a drum

Gone

Askew?

Your beauty imbued

By what could life

Subdue,

You flit on right

Through,

Gloriously determined,

To be you,

To be you.

For the Sunday Stills challenge: A bug’s life

The Strength Of Stone

September 24, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Balance, comfort, fpj-photo-challenge, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Resilience, Rest, Sensitivity, Stone, Strength 30 Comments

Photo: Ofir Asif

The strength of stone

Allows the rounding of its

Edges by time

And rain.

It lets the earth

Scour its base

As flood-paths swirl

And drain,

Even as it lets itself

Maintain

A firm place

To lean

One’s burden on,

Again.

Note: My nephew took this photo in Ethiopia, and I am humbled and moved by the beauty of it, and the eons it carries and the beginnings – and middles, and ends – of so many things it had seen.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stone